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LLVM 3.3 new features

Next week will be released the version 3.3 of LLVM and CLANG infrastructure and it includes new exciting features.

Some of the most interesting features are:

• Integration of the Superworld-Level Parallelism (SLP) Vectorizer, which will be improved in future releases.
• Many improvements of the LLVM's Loop Vectorizer such as unknown trip counts, runtime checks of pointers, reverse iterators, vectorization of mixed types, vectorization of function calls among others.
• Integration of the AMD R600 GPU back-end. This will enable Compute/OpenCL acceleration for some AMD GPUs.
• The Clang C/C++ compiler supports now the lates C++ ISO, it is now C++11 feature-complete.
• 64-bit ARM (ARM64) new architecture support.
• Added support for AVX2 (intel Haswell new instruction set).

More information.

LLvm 3.3 pre-release benchmarks.